Record Data
Source citation
William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 317.
Recipient (to)
William Still
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
TORONTO, C. W., Aug. 17th, 1856.
MR. STILL: - Dear Sir - These few lines may find you as they leave us, we are well at present and arrived safe in Toronto. Give our respects to Mrs. S. - and daughter. Toronto is a very extensive place. We have plenty of pork, beef and mutton. There are five market houses and many churches. Female wages is 62 cents per day, men's wages is $1 and york shilling. We are now boarding at Mr. George Blunt's, on Centre street, two doors from Elm, back of Lawyer's Hall, and when you write to us, direct your letter to the care of Air. George Blunt, &c. (Signed), James Monroe, Peter Heines, Henry James Morris, and Matthew Bodams.